Enrique Toussaint

Self taught bassist from mexico city, born february 27 of 1956. Has been playing professionally for 30 years. Along brothers Eugenio and Fernando, he's part of Mexicos premier jazz quartet Sacbe, with which he has toured extensively and recorded 8 albums to date. During his career, Enrique has traveled all over the world (united states, canada, china, korea, japan, malaysia, indonesia, taiwan, singapore, phllipines, australia, france, germany, spain, italy, great britain, portugal, belgium, holland, norway, switzerland, sweden, finland, monaco, greece, lebanon, turkey, russia, serbia, austria, brasil, colombia, argentina, mexico, uruguay and chile). He's participated in playing situations with: David Foster, Michel Colombier, Ivan Lins, Paul McCandless, Jon Crosse, Luis Conte, Herb Alpert, Paul Anka, Clare Fischer, Cecilia Toussaint, Graham Lear, the Brubeck Brothers, Milcho Leviev, James Ingram, Patti Austin, Placido Domingo, etc. As a member of Paul Anka's entourage, he's performed with the Cincinnati pops, the Atlanta, Boston, National, Houston, and Baltimore symphonies. He's performed at the White House and Ford Theater as well as many well renowned venues like Royal Albert Hall. Television appearances include: Larry King, The View, David Letterman, La Tocada, PBS' A Night to Remember, Rosie O'Donell, Jerry Lewis telethon, Canadian Idol, AM Canada, Fox and Friends, The Today Show and Good Morning America. Some jingles include: pace picante sauce, sherwin williams, etrade (for the super bowl), treasure island, bancomer etc. He wrote music for two PBS specials and for the children's film la sirena y el pescador and played on the soundtrack of the personals and lawrence melm. Hes been featured on the pages of Musico Pro, Soundcheck and Music Life magazines. Enrique lives in Minneapolis/St.Paul where he performs and has recorded with local artists: Marc Anderson, Gao Hong, Billy McLaughlin, Sowah Mensa, Stokley Williams, Michael Baker, Dan Schwartz, Dirk Freymuth, Peter Schimke, Peter Mayer, Peter Oshtrusko, Kirk Johnson, Kathleen Johnson, Stuart Davis, Justin Roth, Preston Reed, John Gorka, etc. His discography includes 90+ albums to date and has released his first solo effort, COMUNIDAD, which is available in Mpls/St.Paul at Cheapo Records, Barnes and Noble HarMar and Electric Fetus also at CDbaby.com and iTunes. When home, Enrique shares his life with beautiful and talented wife Liz Kuivinen Toussaint, his two adorable dogs (Taka and Gaia} and when visiting, his children Alea, Erick and his wife Tia.